Shorty Working in the C & R Statuary Corp.
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Torres was a frequent collaborator of John Ahearn’s, and the two artists share a visual vocabulary. At work in the statuary factory in New York run by Torres’s uncle Raúl Arce, the tattooed and mustached Shorty intently focuses on refining a mass-produced figure of the Virgin. By taking the sculptor at work as his subject, Torres also transforms this piece into an allegorical self-portrait.
Artwork Details
- Title: Shorty Working in the C & R Statuary Corp.
- Artist: Rigoberto Torres (American, born Puerto Rico, Aguadilla 1960)
- Date: 1985
- Medium: acrylic on plaster
- Dimensions: 29 × 24 × 11 1/2 in., approx. 40 lb. (73.7 × 61 × 29.2 cm, approx. 18.1 kg)
- Classification: Sculpture
- Credit Line: Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York. Gift of John Ahearn, 2014
- Rights and Reproduction: © Rigoberto Torres
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art